Automobile license-tag.



this member being of the same construction j throughout. It is intended to be mounted y 1n. any appropriate'manner upon the vehicle for which it has been issued. It is preferably eitherLsta-mped or cast from appropriate metal and has the number of the llcense permanently formed thereon, by

s tampir`1g or casting said number on the plate, by painting the number thereon, or

.by both stamping'or casting and painting.

' Referring to Fig. 1, B designates a removable .member of` the plate containing a designation lindicative of the year of issue l.and C designates a second removable member of the plate containing data indicative of the State which issued the license. The

"removable members B and C are preferably arranged at the ends of the plate B and are secured to the latter by bolts or other appropriate fastening elements.

In the form shown inFig. 2 the data indicative of the State issuing the license and the year during which it is effective are fixed member A of the plate has at one end and integral therewith a member containing data indicative of the State which issued the license, and a separate member, marked B3, 'is removably bolted or otherwise suitably fastened to the numberplate intermediate the llength of the latter. Instead of arranging the State designation at the end of andas an integral part ofthe number member o f lthe plate, it may be' mounted on the number plate/removably, between the ends of the latter, as shown at C4 (Fig. 4) and in such case it may form either a part of the member which .contains the yearA orbe a separate member. The arrangements shown in Figs. 3 and '4' are particularly advantageous for use in States where the numbers run so high that a plate containing the numbers and also containing data indicative of the State which issued'the licenses and the period during which it is eective will be unduly long if the latter data be at theend of the number: it being understood 'that by arranging either the data indicative of the State or the data indicative .of the year lor both such datas, at a place intermediate the length of the member containing the number, the length of the plate 1s correspondingly reduced.

The desirability of keepingthe length of the plate within as short limit as possible also is considered in the production of the plateshown in Fig. 5, in which, however, the members containing data which indicate the State of issue and year during which the license is effective are mounted at the ends of the member which contains the number of the license: but it will be notedithat the number is associated with a particular letter which indicates the class of vehicles for which the license has been issued and that this letter appears also on the member which contains the data indicating the year during which the license is effective. i

`It will be noted that in all cases the member of theplate which contains the year designation is removable from the member of the plate which contains the number and is directly secured to the latter in the simplest possible way. It will thus be apparent that the use of this license plate will reduce the expense of issuing licenses to a minimum, for the reason that the plate costs little if any more than the plate now customarily adopted and at the same time avoids the necessity of issuing a new license plate each year, it being necessary only to issue a member containing the new year designation andv to secure this member to the number member of the plate in lieu of the expired year-member. It will be noted that practically the entire expense connected with these plates is in the production of the member which contains the number, cach plate having a different number from every other plate and hence being very expensive in the aggregate: while the year designations all contain the same data as do also the members containing designation for each particular State. The plate further has an important advantage due to the fact that the number is retained during the entire period of a single ownership of the vehicle Ito which it has been appropriated and hence becomes more firmly connected with that vehicle than is the case where the number changes frequently, ,and avoids the necessity of issuing each year an entirely new list of owners with their changed numbers.

It will of course be understood that the removable members in practice will prefer- 11g ably be colored in such a wayas further to indicate the year of issue, the color being changed each year and preferably being a color which contrasts with that of the main body ofthe plate containing the number.

-It will be noted that in the several gures of the drawing, the removable members are arranged with edges or portions abutting directly against an edge of the main member A and an offset portion d or e is formed 120 adjacent to theabutting edges and carries the screws, bolts or other fastening elements,

.by which the members are secured to each other. The offset portion forms a fiange which overlies or underlies the edge of the 125 adjacent member and through which the fastening elements extend, it being understood that the fastening elements also extend through the edges of the adjacent members. The offset portions d or e may be on 130 :ll believe te be new and megane either the main plate or the removable' members, as desired. 'llh'e plate A and the remer/ablel members are preferably formed 'with creased edges f and f', respectively, to

ornament and sti'en them. a

Having now-described the invention what desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

"ber f ber having permanently thereon and intel. A license plate comprising a main. member having permanently thereon and integral therewith the figures of the license number, and a second member havin permanently' thereon and integral therewith tindica of the year .of the license, the said second member bein removably and rigidly Q secured directly to an end-of the main member and constituting a prolongation thereof.

l 2. A license plate comprising a main memhaving permanently thereon and integral therewith the ligures of the license number, and a supplemental member having permanently thereon and integral therewith indicia of the year oitthe license, an edge of one ci said members overlapping an edge of the other member and said edges being but removably secured together.

license plate comprising a main memgral therewith the figures of the license numberand a character indicating the class of the vehicle, and a supplemental member having permanently thereon and integral therewith-indicia which include a characterv 'conesponding to the one on the main member forindicating the class of the vehicle, the said supplemental member being removably and rigidly secured to an edge of the main member.

4:. Alicense plate comprising a main member having permanently thereon and integral therewith the figures of the license number and acharacter indicating the class of the vehicle, and supplemental members having permanently thereon and integral therewith indicia which include a character corresponding with the one on the main member for indicating the class of the vehicle, and characters indicating the year and territory of the license, the said supplemental members being removably and rigidly secured to edge of themain member;

5. A license plate for motor vehicles comprising a main member having permanently thereon and integral therewith,`the several figures necessary to constitute a license number, a second member having permanently thereon and integral therewith indicia of theyear of the license, said second member fit being removably and rigidly secured directly to an edge of the main member.

6. A license plate for automobiles comprising a main member with numerals thereon indicating the license number of the machine and a letter of the alphabet adjacent.

to said numerals to indicate the license class of the machine, and a member detachably secured thereto, having thereon indicia, re-

lating to the year of issue and the territory affected by the license.

ln testimony whereof ll have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing w1tnesses.

JUSIAll-ll B. GA'lllGrlHl'l. Witnesses: E. S.' Foo'rn, Jnssn N. Germanic.

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